CHAPTER 60
G REGORY JOINED THE POLICE looking for revenge for the death of his grandfather, who had raised him so lovingly, as if he were his own son. He had been brutally murdered in his auto shop when Greg was just seven years old. Which had given him horrible nightmares ever since.
STILL AT THE POLICE ACADEMY, during the internships, he managed to gather enough evidence to put his own father in prison for killing his grandfather. Which left him even more unmotivated with life, for being such a futile reason.
At the trial, his father assumed he was drunk and out of his mind when he killed him. He tried to plead insanity, but to no avail.
His grandfather had always been strict in raising his children, and for that reason, Stu — Gregory's father — began drinking uncontrollably that night. His grandfather could not tolerate such indiscipline and set out to give him a beating. Stu grabbed a hammer to try to defend himself and landed a clean blow on his own father's head. The son's hatred was so great that, even after he was dead, he continued to beat.
According to the expertise, it took forty-eight blows with a sledgehammer, leaving him completely disfigured.
Even after all those years — fifteen years later — Stu wasn't sorry for what he'd done. He said before the court that he would do it all over again, without any regrets, only this time, he would also kill the treacherous son, who handed him over to the justice of men, because in the justice of God, he was already absolved for having done humanity a favor by taking away that worm from the face of the earth, whose only good deed for mankind was to have made a son like him.
Gregory never saw or heard from his father directly, nor did he want to know, he wanted the bastard to burn in the fires of hell for everything he had done, not only to his grandfather, but also to his mother and brothers, leaving them to their own devices. luck.
Years later, Gregory learned that Stu had succumbed to a rebellion. The inmates used him as a shield to try to get out of prison. That day, the order the police received was to open fire. No mercy.
THE YEARS PASSED and Gregory became America's greatest criminal detective, solving the most impossible cases that came his way.
One case that gave him a lot of headache was the "Knolles Case". A serial killer who always used the same method to kill his victims, the man was so genius that no one could find any traces, but Gregory found a small loophole.
The killer was so concerned about leaving no fingerprints, or anything out of place, that he didn't care where he stepped.
Gregory knew that no land was the same and asked for a land analysis to be carried out, it took almost three months, but they found the remains of land that were at the crime scenes, however, finding the land, they found the criminal, a judge who had charged countless black women with murder, but who were innocent.
In the interviews, Gregory didn't say what method he used, but he told Judge McKinlan that if he was more careful where he tread, without a doubt no one would ever know who the author of those terrible crimes was.
— Coincidentally, the murderer of black women was arrested by a black man, — Greg said in his interview, thus making him a superstar in the police scene after that.
***
CLIFF HANDERSON ENTERED the custody room and handed Greg a list hoping for a miracle.
— Are these all the symmetrical places in London?
Handerson nodded as he saw the long list in front of him.
Royal Observatory — Greenwich Park,
London Tower,
Tower Bridge,
Convent Garden,
Hyde Park,
The Shard,
Buckingham Palace,
trafalgar square,
St. pancras,
Royal Mews,
St. Dunsten in the East,
Elthan Palace and Gardens,
Harrods,
Greenwich Market,
Horse Guards Parade at Whitehall,
paddington station,
King's Cross Station,
St. Mary Axe (The Gherkin),
royal courts os justice,
Royal Hospital Chelsea,
White Hall,
London Victoria Station,
Russell Square,
Alexandra Palace,
The Crossness Pumping Station,
Severndroog Castle,
Charling CrossRoad,
Strand,
Fleet Street,
paternoster square,
Marble Arch,
Wellington Barracks,
Burlington House,
National Gallery,
Natural History Museum,
St. James Square.
— Are you sure that's all it is?
Cliff sensed the irony, but he had no idea what was going through the man's mind.
— I brought the pictures, I don't know if it helps.
— Sometimes too much information only hurts.
— It's better than no information.
Greg smiled in satisfaction.
'I'm glad it's you and not that crazy Smith who's here helping me... that refreshes my mind. Cliff, thank you.
He nodded.
— What's your idea?
— To find a tiger in the middle of it all, or at least something that reminds me of a tiger, a predator.
Suddenly, he had an insight.
— And if the secret is not in symmetry, the title of the poem gave me a light.
— And what would it be?
He showed the picture of the bascule bridge in front of him. — Does this remind you of anything when the two bridges rise?
— The Tower Bridge?
Greg acquiesced
— An inverted "Y".
— Just like Tyger.
— It's a gamble...
— It's our last bet...they want to set her on fire tonight...
— Cliff, just make sure if someone bets against you, she's betting to lose.
— He is sure?
— Do you have agents to send to all these places?
— No... it's just that... it's under renovation...
— Then we have to act as quickly as possible.
Cliff nodded.
— If there's one thing I've learned in my career, it's to believe in intuition, looking at the drawing, seeing the detail of the "Tygrer", everything leads me to believe that the attack will be there.
Cliff took a tablet from his briefcase and handed it to Greg.
— You can communicate with me through this here and carry out some research, everything you do I will be aware, if you try to communicate with someone outside I will know, it's a vote of confidence I'm giving you.
— You can rest assured that we are allies, I'm here to help, I need one more thing that you provide for me.
— You can talk.
— I want release to know all about Abbot Nielsen, Major Midleton, Erick Hughes and Charles Smith.
— Do you suspect something, Greg?
— I'm paid to be suspicious of everything.